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The Gainesville Eagle. Published Every Friday Morning. ..BY REDWINE & HAM. Tho Official Organ of Hall, Banks, Towns, Rabun, Union and Dawson counties, and the city of Gainesville. Has a large general circulation in twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and three counties in Western North Carolina. Advortisins Rates. In accordance with the recent act of the general assembly regulating the prices of legal advlbtis iso, the charges will hereafter be seventy-five cents per hundred words or fraction thereof each insert tion for the first four insertions, and thirty-five cents for each subsequent insertion. At these rates advertisements noted below will cost as follows: Sheriffs’ sales (100 words or less) J 3 00 Over 100 words. li cent per word each insertion. Executors’, administrators’ and guardians’ sales, same as above. Notice to debtors and creditors (100 words or less) 3 00 Citations, all kinds (100 words or less) 3 00 Notices for dismission, leave to sell, etc., same as above. 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Transient . 4_< advertisements from unknown parties must be paid, > for in advance. tv, ° ♦S* Address all orders and remittances to REDWINE A HAM, Gainesville, Ga. EDITORIAL EAGLETS. The New York Sun prints a long, eloquent and feeling tribute to the late Dr. Pierce. • What a mouth that poet must have had who wrote, “I covered her with the kiss I gave.” - The latest invention is a flat can dle. The baby can be spanked with it without extinguishing the light. Atlanta is to have an excersion to Cincinnati, over the Cincinnati South ern, about the 10th of next month. The postoffice authorities have pro mulgated an order that no mail mat ter be delivered to any lottery agent. Mr. Richard Schell, a well known citizen of New York, and somewhat of a politician, died a few days since- The railroad commission has organ ized, elected Mr. R A. Bacon, of Co lumbus, clerk, and fitted up an office in the cap'tol at Atlanta. Out in lowa, after a man has had five or six family fights and lost a leg in a threshing machine, he is counted worthy to be called “judge” around the grocery stores. Now that times are so hard here and people are so restless, it may be doing them a service to remark that the highwayman business is paying pretty well out west now. It is alleged in political circles that John Sherman’s refusal Io become a candidate for the Ohio senatorship is notice to the country that he in tends to become a candidate for president. • ♦ 4N» ♦ A South Carolina man was recent ly struck in the groin by a p'stol ball, but escaped injury from having a silver dollar in his breeches pocket. -. He was not an editor, or the dollar would not have been there. We admire Mark Twain’s humor, - but hanged if we like his politics. He says: “I wouldn’t vote for a dem ocrat for pound-master, if he was as pure as an angel and as good as Moses. I’d swallow a mighty bad republican first. ■*. The Constitution has found a foe man worthy of its steel in the person of Hon. J. F. Awtrey. His last letter to that journal on the usury law was an exceedingly able document, and worried its several able editors into a two column editorial. It must be a very exceptionable case to justify such an attack as this on public pa tience. The Cincinnati Poss is getting to be about the red-hottest democratic paper out. It is with sincere pleasure that we note this conversion to the right on the part of that able jour nal. A cleverer fellow than Charley Burnett never fluttered a Faber, and • when he becomes a good democrat we shall feel like going clear up to Cincinnati to embrace him. Says the Boston Globe: Senator Blaine ridicules the idea of intimida tion by troops at the polls in New York, because the soldiers number but two to three polling places. It is not the number that alarms any body, but the face; for if they may place one soldier at the polls, they may a thousand. If there were not but one soldier to the whole state of New York, we would object to that one. The civil law is supreme, and it can and should maintain its own position. —♦ The Chicago Neus invited promi nent men all over the union to send congratulations on the return of Gen. Grant, to be published on the morn ing of the Grant rally in Ch cago, Gen. Toombs sent the following: . “Atlanta, Ga.—M. E. Stone, Editor: Your telegram received. I decline to answer, except to present my per sonal congratulations to Gen. Grant - on bis safe arrival to his country. He fought for his country honorably, and w in; I fought for mine, and lost. I am ready t'o try it over again, Death to the union. “[Signed] R. Toombs.” The Gainesville Eagle VOL. XIII. THE NA I ION’S CAPITAL. Some Presidential Speculations— About Grant-Two Senators-A Crowd Going to Washington. [Special Correspoadeuce of the Eagle.] Washington, D. C., Nov. 13, 1879. Presidential success has hardly ever been achieved by any party with a noted politician as a candi date. Going through the list of candidates for a long series oQ years, we find only one such success, that of Mr. Buchanan, and that gentle man had been abroad for several years, at the time of his nomination. He had had no lute part in the ac tive politics of the country. Os the others who have occupied the white house, it may be Baid that Hayes had absolutely no standing as a nolitician outside his own state. Grant was simply a soldier; Lincoln was unknown to the politicians, Pierce, Polk, Taylor, all were sol diers comparatively unknown men. Ido not write this because of any nbjection to Mr. Seymour, Mr. Til den, Mr. Bayard, Mr. Thurman, Mr. Hendricks, or any others or the dis tinguished gentlemen who have been named for the democratic nomina tion. On the contrary, I believe there is not one of them who does not deserve well of the party and the country, and who would not if elec ted, be a wise and safe president. But the bad fortunes that attend po litical distinction in the race for the presidency is one of the matters to be kept in mind. Chicago and the northwest seem to have been out-doors to see Gen. Grant yesterday. The General i - timated the other day to a newspaper that he should endeavor to find in the east some congenial occupation, which would afford him sup; ort, and should not again enter public life under any circumstances. I find that many here who lately looked upon the General as a candidate for a “third term” now believe that he will not under any circumstances ac cept a party nomination. Senators Bayard and Edmunds just returned from abroad are rep sentative men, and probably except ing only Senator Thurman, have each more influence than any other sena tors. Edmi\ds is a man of wonder ful readiness and clearness, and his resources in debate are such as no other senator has, but he is sly, cold, and treacherous. Sena’or Bayard is much less ready in debate, but is as clear a reasoner, honest as man could be, always consistent, and with all the courage and firm ness ever needed. Edmunds has an excellent chance to be the radical candidate for vice president, if Grant takes the head of the ticket. Bayard, as everybody knows, is a man very prominetly mentioned as the democratic candi date for president. It is now believed that a larger number of people will visit Washing ton this month to attend the meet ing of the army of Cumberland than have been here at one time since the war. They will see the handsomest city in America, and will have a most cordial welcome. Rex <+> WINTER FASHIONS. Midwinter Styles in Drcssss, Wraps, Hats and Bonnets. Et creteras of Dress and Fashion. [From advance sheets of Ehrichs’ Fashion Quarterly.] The styles for the coming i eason are rich, pleasing, and varied to a degree exceeding that of many past years. The revival of changeable or shot silks, satins and velvets, bro cades and damasses, the introduc tion of gold and silver threads into many of the richest dress goods, and the revived form in which cut j-t and variegated beads have been re produced, render fashion this year a gorgeous and beautiful wonder. The modistes and milliners have caught the artistic spirit, and have made admirable use of these new fabrics in the creation of rarely beautiful cos tumes, wraps, bonnets, hats, and accessories of the toilet. SACQUES, CLOAKS, ETC. While lomz French sacques of beaver and chinchilla cloths and other cloaking materials are used for ordinary wear, the richer Sicilienne and Antwerp silk and silk matelasse and heavy camel’s hair cloaking fab rics, both black and colored, are made up into long dolmans, visites, and long, loose-fitting sacque dol mans, with eibow sleeves or dolman capes superimposed above the sacque, forming ornamental sleeves and up per canes combined. Such garments are lined with quilted satin, and trimmed with the richest ostrich feather ruchings, heading tnick dou ble fringes, composed of pressed silk, chenille, and crimped tape; and some times a rich passementerie rat-tai! fringe is added, falling over the under one of chenille and pressed silk. Tasseled and balled fringes are also used, and to give added effect, strands of jet beads are introduced in the black fringes, and amber aud variegated ones in the colored ones in tho colored fringes that trim the cloaks of colored cloaking material. EUR LINED GARMENTS. Squirrel—either the whole skins or locks—continues to be the popular lining fur The bauds with which fur-lined garments are trimmed all around this winter are of beaver, fox, chinchilla, stone martin, or Alaska sable, and all the usual trimming! furs, to which is now added Grecian chinchilla, a new, medium priced, GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 22, 1879. • and extremely dressy clipped fur. that bids fair to be very popular. MILLINERY. The millinery this season assumes more original and interesting forms than ever, while no words can convey an adequate idea of the exquisite colors and texture of the materials. The satins, velvets and silks, the rib bons and all woven stuffs in millinery goods, come in changeable effects, or if solid in color are woven with a glistening and sheeny surface that is indescribably beautiful The fancy feathers also are richer and more va riegated than ever, and the ostrich tips and plumes are frequently shaded in a novel and most effective manner; colored tinsel, crystal, and variegated and fine cut jet beads and ornaments are used ad libitum on everything, and gold and silver braids and lace, gold, silver, jet, steel and variegated jewel ornaments, all play the ? part jn the work of bonnet and hat orna mentation. SIMPLE HEAD GEAR. But while these dressy and elabor ate bonnets and hats are worn for ceremonioue occasions, in full toilet, the simplest kinds of head gear— felts, Derbys and equestriennes—are worn by young ladies on all ordinary occasions, with little or no trimming on them, while their mamas wear plain felt bonnets, trimmed only with plain satin ribbon, or bands of plain siik or satin, and but one modest wing, or perhaps two ostrich tips. LINGERIE. Among new neck lingerie are found chemisettes of point d’esprit, of puffed tulle, and of lace; enormous wired ruches of point d’esprit and crepe lisse alternating; enorniQUs cravats of white muslin, edged with Breton, point d’esprit and other laces, and fichus of all styl»s and dimensions, while for tall and stately figures large lace half handkerchiefs of Breton lace and point d’esprit, bordered with plaitings of the same, are used with marked effect. GARNITURES. The taste for flower garnitures on evening dres es still maintains its hold on popular fancy; and corsage bouquets of various tones, according to the complexion of the wearer, promise to be extremely fashionable. ET OzE TERAS OF DRESS AND FASHION. New gray gloves are blue tinted. New reticules are square and flat. Hand-painted lace is a late novel ty. Plain velvet cloaks will again be worn. Colored street wraps are again fashionable. Undressed kid gloves retain their popularity. Large and small bonnets arc equal ly fashionable. Chemisettes and inside kerchiefs are.again in vogue. Many walking costumes are made with a jacket bodice. Fichus of all sizes and in every imaginable shape are worn. Tiger and leopard velvets are hand some trimming novelties. Large rosettes of Breton and point d’esprit laces are worn. There is no absolute rule about any detail of the toilet this season. Flowers are as much used for gar nitures of evening dresses as ever. Cream-colored silk net, polka dot ted and washable, is sold for neck scarfs. Both very light-colored and very dark costumes for street wear are in vogue. Striped velvets are not so popular for parts of costumes as those with set figures. Opera cloaks of white toile sanglier (boar’s cloth) bid fair to be ver’ fashionable. The corsage bouquet of the pass ing moment is one or several large red Tore satin roses. White felt and plash hats aud bon nets continue to be favorite opera and theatre chapeaua:. As many fabrics and accessories now enter into a bonnet as into the most elaborate dresses. Lambrequin paniers and tabliers must be very ample and carefully draped to look well. The tendency of the coiffure at the moment is towards classic simplicity and old Greek ideas. The large directoire bow of Breton or point d’esprit lacc is the neatest Parisian fancy in neck wear. Medium and dark shades of kid gloves will be more worn for full dress than for many seasons past. Singapore silk is the new name for a soft silk in rich cashmere colors and designs, used for millinery pur poses. Spencers of colored velvet, with lace elbow sleeves, will be worn with white skirts for evening dress by young ladies. Some foreign fashion journals say that dresses with but one skirt will certainly be worn this winter in heavy materials. Ture satin is the new name for that soft changeable, twilled, yet lustrous fabric, known sometimes as satin de Lyons. L imbrequin drapery, with paniers and tablier combined, is the favorite arrangement for Parisian toilets of ceremony. Two and three bands of narrow ribbon are worn around the waves of banded hair that are worn with the Greek coil at present. Corsages opening low in front, in shawl or heart front, or square a la Pompadour, are fashionable for wo - men of all ages. Mbits moutonne, a soft lamb’s wool cloth, is used for dressy or evening or reception jackets for young girls, with Oriental trimmings. A novelty in evening dress fabrics is white toile sanglier, or boar’s cloth, a heavy all-wool material, dotted in raised fine points. Pale dauphin gray and mastic shades bf chinchilla and beaver cloth, plain and ribbed, are again used for jackets, dolmans, vfeites and sacques. The crowns of some plush bonnets seem to be composed entirely of jet beads, the embroidery actually cov-, ering completely the lace on which the design is wrought META’S ELDERLY LOVER BY ANNIE SHIELDS. “There is no pleasure you cannot command as Leon Parker’s wife,” said Mrs. Crossdale, coaxmgly, looking at a beautiful face opposite to her own, and nothing its mutinous frown. “But, mamma,” said Meta Cross dale, her lips pouted and her pretty eyes decidedly rebellious, “I don’t want to marry Mr. Parker! He is fifty four years old. He told me so himself; and I am- not yet twenty.” “But he is a very fine-looking man, Meta; a perfect gentleman, and bet ter than either, a good man.’ “I do not love him! “At least you love no one els 6!” Here Meta burst into a clear, ring ing laugh, as delicious to hear as a strain of joyous music. “Let me count up his rivals!’’ aha cried! “the butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker! There is not a beau at Lawrenceville, mamma, and you know it. Yet—.” And the laughing eyes grew suddently sad, the sweet smiling mouth dropped into pathetic curves. She was young, not quite twenty, and she had dreampt maiden dreams, as young hearts will ever. But in no one rosy-tinted vis ion had her middle-aged lover, her only one, appeared.- Lawrenceville was a small place, crowded in the village proper by the employees of a large woolen manufac tory, but with tiny cottages lying on the outskirts of this busy heart of the place, where a population of very limited means lived economically. Meta was but ten years old whan her father died and her mother moved to Lawrenceville. Here the child was educated by her mother, a most accomplished who kept her one treasure secluded in the tiny cot tage home, and spared neither time nor pains to make ,her a refined, noble woman. Leon Parker was a connection of Mr. Crossdale’s, and managed for the widow the narrow income left from her husband’s once large estate. Twice a year he visited her, and on the visit previous to this October day on which the story opens, had re mained six weeks at the Lawrence ville hotel, kept captive by Meta’s soft brown eyes and golden hair. “Strange as it may sound to you,” he told Mrs. Crossdale, “Meta is my first love. I have had duties that prevented my marrying in youth; an aged mother and a crippled sister claimed all my care till I was past forty years old. Then I had settled into old bachelor ways when both died. But I love Meta! If I can win her love, my whole aim will be to make her happy.’’ But Meta rebelled. In her eyes this old friend, who had brought her. dolls and sogfl.r-plutns in her baby hood, pretty trinkets, music, books, and other gifts in her girlhood, was not the prince who would come cour ting some bright day. ‘But, after all,” she sighed, “who ever comes here? Mamma will not associate with the neighbors, and there is no one else!” So, with reluctance, and yet a pret ty, shy affection, the growth of years, Meta put her slender hand in that of Leon Parker and promised to be his wife. It was not until the promise was given that Mrs. Crossdale told her of her strongest reason for urging the marriage. “I shall leave you in safe care, my darling,” she said, “when the time comes to part. Hush!” she added, as Meta gave a sharp, questioning cry. “We have kept the knowledge from you, dear, but Dr. Weldon says now the winter will end my life!” Shocked, grief-stricken as she was, Meta was not altogether unprepared for the news. For a long time it had been evident that New England’s fell destroyer, consumption had claimed Mrs. Croasdale for his vic tim. “You will not ask me to leave mam ma ?” Meta pleaded when Mr. Park er spoke of an early marriage. “It will help you,” he answered. “No,” she said, gently; “it would only give me a divided duty. I must belong to her only, this win ter.’’ Mr. Parker made no further plea for an e rly wedding, yet Meta was gratefully conscious <sl his care for her. From his city home he sent weekly, boxes of rare fruit, tempting delica cacies, choice flowers, magazines, trifles to interest an invalid, every to ken of most watchfull love. It was characteristic of his delicacy, his knowledge of Meta’s unselfish devo tion, that he made her no gift all win ter, save a basket of rare flowers at Christmas. Every other offering was for the invalid. When the spring came. Leon Parker onca once more visited Law eranceville, and for three weeks gave Mrs. Ciossdale a son’s loving care. The end came gently, painlessly, and when Meta turned from her mother's last embrace it was to find Laon Parker waiting to comfort her. He had sent for Mr. Crossdale’s only sister, a stiff old maid of ample foitnne, who had reluctantly consen ted to take Meta to her homo until Mr. Parker claimed his wife. He bad hoped to take Meta to his own luxurious home at once, but she shrank from the mention of her mar riage so soon after her days of mour ning began. So once more he yielded, and Meta, weeping and sore-hearted, went to .New York with her aunt. But even in this first year of mour ning a new life opened to Meta Crossdale. Miss Croasdale, although past fifty years old, set in her ways, and cold, had yet a position in soci ety that it was her pride to maintain. She was wealthy, and had a fine in tellect, so that she collected at her evening gatherings many distinguish ed artists, literary men and wemen, and those enjoyed cultivated socie ty- There was no dancing—but little music; but Meta soon learned to en joy the treat of really good conversa- tion, and when the piano was opened, it was to artistic touch or professional fingers. And coldly as she had taken her to her home, Miss Crossdale learned very soon to love Meta. The girl’s quiet grief, her gentle manner, her delicate womanly instincts made her charming companion to one of her own sex, and in comforting her, her aunt learned to love her. The year of mourning was nearly over, and Miss Crossdale was think ing of Meta’s trousseau, when disas trous news came from some proper ty in which Leon Parker had inves ted heavily. I have not space to en ter into the details, but the result was given in his own words to Miss Cross dale: “When my just liabilities are all paid I shall be a poor man, and must couVnence. in the world anew. You know me well enough to be sure I will ; hold Meta to her engage met;- .‘out I cannot see her yet. You must Vail her.’ ’ And Miss Crossdale, not unwilling ly, undertook the commission. “It was very well,” she said, after telling Meta all the facts, “for you to marry Leon Parker at the time you were first engaged to him. You had no prospect of making any better match, and you were very poor. But since he has releases you I think you had better except his offer. I will tell you now, Meta, that my will is made in your favor. When I die you will be wealthy. If you are wise you will remain single, as I have done. But if you marry you can let your heart chose for you need not marry for money. You do not love Leon Parker?” But Meta made no answer. She crept, away to her own room, pale and shivering, wondering why the world was so cold and empty. All winter she had been comparing Leon Parker with the younger men who had assembled' at her aunt’s, many of them drawn there more frequently than ever before by her own fair face. She had met literary men whose brill iant intellect won her hearty admira tion; artists who had seemed to her above common humanity in their heaven-born gift; musicians who had made her heart glad with their won drous harmonies. Some there were who "had let her see that were she free she might claim their life's devo tion; some who might have touched her heart had not Leon Parker held her promise. But now that he had given back that promise, and must fight fortune again, she felt her heart crying out against his sacrifice. He had offered her luxury, had made her mother’s illness almoust a bed of flowers, had sought her happiness in every hour of their long friendship. The thought of him in some hum fc' jijome, working busily to conquer ■*'Lue, a^OQe ’ She pictured him from the day’s toil, and re turning to his small room, his coarse dinner, alone! Alone! always aione, for she knew no other love was possible to him. In his prosperity she had carelessly put her hand in his, to share his life of ease and luxury. In his adversi ty, she stood thinking of taking back her promise! With streaming eyes and tremb ling fingers she wrote to him: “Dear Leon: You will let me call you Leon now ? I wronged you once not so very long ago, for I promised to be your wife, only be cause you offered me wealth and a devotion I scarcely understood. I was very voung, very inexpergKced, Leon, and I did not understaiKi how solemn and sacred a trust I was so carelessly taking, 1 ask you now to forgive me, that I would have repaid your love so poorly. But if you do forgive me, Leon do not leave me, for I love you! Do not think lam bold and unmaidenly, for T would be in your eyes only what you can love. I did not know until Aunt Maria told me you had given me back my promise that I had learned to love you. Perhaps if there had not been this fear of losing you, I should nev er have known how desolate the loss would make my life. Do not fear that you will find me fretful, if we are poor. I know how to economize and have never been rich so I dare. But if you can still love me let our marriage be upon the day we had named—for I cannot give you up. She took the letter down stairs and put it silently in Miss Croasdale’s hands, and that prim maiden, after reading it, kissed her, whispering: “May you be happy, dear child. He is worthy of your love!” So there was a wedding in April and the bride went contentedly to a small house, with one maid of all work instead of to the grand home Leon Parker had lost. But there was a happiness there the grand old house might have missed for Meta had learned the secret of her own heart and Leon Parker knew that his wife came to him for love’s sake and not for money. Rev. Dr. Pierce. On the 24th day of last March, his birthday, Dr. Pierce wrote to the church the following greeting: MY NINETY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY. “Truly the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun; but if a man live many years and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of his darkness for they shall be many. “Life, as a whole, is like light—it is emphatically sweet. But there is always some discount—sometimes pretty large. Yet the world, as a home for probationers, is very good. And it has fitted me so well that I have never been packing up and hurrying away because the cld, fine boat of Saints—on the river of death, all the time going and coming— leaves on its embarking wharf no one uncalled for. “Well, I am willing. All I am careful about is, when my time comes to be both willing and ready. “Daring December, January and February, I lay and looked into death’s large encampment; looked for the undertakers to come and put - an end to this family memorial. But I know there is an end with God to be attained by keeping me here at this time. At this time I have noth ing in view, except if it be His will, that I may, in some sort, as an act ual relict of early Methodism, bridge the chasm between the past and the present. God has made me, as fond friends have expressed it, ‘the Nes tor’ among them. To show more fully to our people the power and ex cellence of unadulterated Methodism, I wish to write my own biography. Whether I shall be spared to do this, God knoweth. “But before I leave this world I desire to testify, as to myself, in its favor. It is a good world, God did his best on it and in it. The Spirit never asked the question: “Who will show us any good?” He could not and inquire in the next breath, “What shall we render unto God for all his benefits toward us ?” As to what we ought to do in return, the Spirit tells us at once: 'Let us take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord.’ In a word, it is to be an open, devout profession of religion. In this connection it is the grand, the glorious moral phenomenon, uni versally felt to be true, that the light of God’s countenance, lifted upon us, is the soul s panacea.” In December, 1806, in the house of John Lucas, in Sparta, Bishop As buay ordained Lovick Pierce deacon, at the end of his second year in the itinerant ministry, Ju the old “Lu cas” house was bora, some months ago, Doctor Pierce’s first Sfreat-great grandchild. DEATH OF A REMARKABLE WOMAN. Tlie Circe Who Tore ; up a President's Cabinet. Washington, November 9. —The evening papers chronicle the death of a very remarkable woman. Mrs. Margaret Eaton, or rather Bachig nani, died in this city to-day, at the age of eighty-one. She was remarka bly well preset red. A few years ago—no later than when she in her seventy-ninth year—she was as brisk, as steady of walk, as rosy and far more witty than the - average woman of forty. In sooth, she was a queen; her beauty was of the enduring kind; her wit ran riot in brilliance. Her maiden name was McNeill. Her brother kept a hotel here and was very wealthy. She ruled over them all. She was unconventional, and this wag to society’s tongue. She married early— a paymaster in the navy named Timberlake being the chosen one. ’Twas then that her name was on every one’s tongue. She was the authority in society, and she shone like the morning star. Two children, I believe, were the re sult of this marriage. It was in 1831 -32 that gossip became outspoken. Her fame was descried by a thous and tongues Women, ever jealous of the social elevation of another, talked her good name to the dogs, and assisted by men, their willing allies. She became notorious, but still kept her place in society. A year or so after her husband died. She was then the most enchanting widow of whom Washington social annals have any record. She was not a widow long. She married General Eaton. Andrew Jackson was President and General Eaton was his Secretary of War. Scandal had been so busy with Eaton’s wife’s name that the wives of the other cabinet officers met and decreed that they would not associate with her. Mrs. Calhoun, the wife of the then Secretary of State, declared to old Hickory freely that it had been de cided that if Mrs. Eaton was preei-nt at the receptions the rest of the la dies of the cabinet would keep away, and that they would not receive her at their houses under any circum stances. The President had fre quently met Mrs. Eaton before her marriage. She was one of his best friends. He believed nothing wrong in her. When Mrs. Calhoun deliv ered to him the ultimatum of the cabinet ladies as regards his friend, he said: “She ought to be received, and, by the eternal, she shall be re ceived !” And received she was to a certain extent. But the war did not stop. Mrs. Calhoun and the other ladies kept the pot boiling. They enlisted their husbands in the fight The men then took up the cudgels against Mrs. Eiton. Mr. Jackson stuck to his friend, however. Once or twice this teapot tempest took on so much pressure that the cabinet came near bursting up. The waters were caused to subside by the ap pointment of General Eaton as Uni ted States Minister to Eugland. In Madrid Mrs. Eaton was in her ele ment. Beautiful, accomplished, wealthy, and wi h every womanly witchery her own, she went to the front among the donnas and daugh ters of grandees. She kept u,j her reputation there, too. She became the bosom friend of Queen Isabella, whose memory is fraught with in discretions. The two, according to all accounts, lived together twin vo luptuaries. Mrs Eaton returned to Washington again a widow, or be came one soon after her return. She lived quieter now. She had all that money could bring. She lived in quiet elegance with her daughter. The stories about her continued After her return society would not receive her. Her daughter, then sixteen jears of age, wis almost a prototype of her mother in beautj and possessed almost ai b iliiant a wit. An Italian dancing was employsd to train her in the intrica cies of terpsichore. He was a dap per doll-baby man, but handsome withal. The mother fell in love with him; he fell in love with the daugh ter; and the daughter became enam ored of her teacher. His name was Bachignani. Mrs. Eaton, still as vigorous as a woman of twenty-five, married him. She was as proud of the slim Italian as a maiden of her first lover. They lived together not very long. She trusted him with all her*property. One fine day, or rath er one dark night, the Italian eloped with the daughter, taking all the mon<y —be bad converted tbe prop erty into cisb—with bins. They went to Italy and lived in regal style. Mrs, Eaton bad but little left and that was soon gone. Two rela tives in this city, one a young man ; and the other a young lady, both in government employ, have supported her since. Sbe was ever lively and brisk. Her wit never lost its bright ness to her death. This is a brief outline of tbe life of a most remarka ble woman—a woman who in her day was more talked of than many a Queen, with all her prestige. THE NOKTHm OUTCRY. [Cincinnati Post.) Wade Hampton said recently that the South was not solid against the North. This is true. Sectional feel ing exists to a much greater extent to-day in the North than in the South. There is not a town-ship south of the Mason & Dixon’s line that could be carried by abuse of thf Northern people, while it is a lamen table fact that in Ohio, at least, the principal stock in trade of Republi can stump orators and newspapers has consisted in a wholesale and in discriminate denunciation of the Southern people. The South is, however, solid in favor of the rights of the National Government as established by the Constitution and the rights of the States and the people thereof as de clared in that instrument. When tne war ended it was in the power of the Republican party to have attached to it a large ele ment of Southern voters. All that was necessary was to have pursued a wise and magnanimous policy—to have recognized the principle that the acts of indivduals could not impair the rights of the States as constituent parts of the general Government, that as a matter of law no State had ever been out of the Union—and as the collocation to this propositim that each State was entitled to the same treatment at the hands of the Federal power that every State was entitled to. The reverse of this policy was pur sued—the great mass of the intelli gence and wealth of the Southern people was disfranchised—bayonets were substituted for ballots, and sov erign States were put under the ar bitary rule of military satraps. In dustries were paralyzed, individuals and communities, nay, even States were bankrupted; brute force was sub stituted for law, and by one and an other false and specious pretext the the people were impoverished and en slaved. In fine, and under Republi can dominion, enormous taxes were piled mercil ssly upon the prostrate people until the finest plantations in the State were turned out to grass, because they were unable to bear the terrible exaction of the party in pow er, and the business property in the largest metropolis of the State could be had for the payment of the taxes These taxes went into the pockets of as vile a gang of plunderers as ever in fested any country. And when the people attempted to throw off the yoke that had been cruelly fastened on their necks, they were met not on ly with the menace,, but the actual use of Federal bayonets, and with the threat of the trial, conviction and execution by drum-head court-marti al of leading citizens in a time of profound peace. The case of Louis iana is but one of the many instances that might be enumerated. The same bad systems were pursued in other States, all in the name and by the authority of the republican party. These facts have passed into hist o ry. Tbe question as to whether or not they did exist is no longer a matter open tea discussion. And so far from being exaggerated, one tithe of tne sad story has never been told. The historian who will truly de pict the outrages, wrongs and oppres sions perpetrated upon Southern men and Southern States by the Republi can party in the desolate years im mediately succeeding the war, will portray a picture at which the world will stand aghast. These truths being undeniable, what is the logic which now attempts to ascribe opposition to the Republican party as proceeding from hatred of the North or hostility to the Federal government? Would it not be a mir acle, not only of forgiveness, but of stupidity, if they should now cling with freternal zeal to the party which has attempted their utter ruin and as far as in its power lay has accom plished it, and that, too, as against a party which from the day of the sur render has manfully mantained their rights in the legislative halls of the country and in the popular forum. The shallowest of all shallow hum bugs is the hypocritcal cry that every measure opposed to the Republican party is a proof of disloyalty to the government. It originates in the monstrous assumption that that pol itical organization is the depository of all the intelligence and patriotism of the country. This assumption is as mendacious as it is insolent. The Democratic leaders are to-day as loyal to the country as any of the mouthing demagogues denounce them and the masses of the party, constituting as they do a majority of the people of the country, are as sin cerely attached to the principles of constitutional government as the purest and best of their opponents. Nay, more; in the existence of the Democratic party is the only guaran tee to the perpetuation of free govern ment in our midst. Remove its op position to the inroads which the Republican party has attempted in numerous instances to make upon constitutional liberty and you remove the only organized force which can prevent the establishment of the strong government about which the Republicans prate, and which is only another name for a despotism. To no portion of the people are these facts better known than to the people of the South, and it should occasion congratulation rather than invective that they stand as a unit against a party which has persistent ly deprived them of their liberties, and would, if they had the power, destroy the form of government upon which those liberties depend. SMALL BITS W Varloaa Kind* r Carelessly Thrown Together. A tidal wave of corn has sei in toward the Thanksgiving turkeys. “Ah said a deaf man who had a scolding wife, “man wants but little 1 hear below.” The wife of a Philadelphian who had his life heavily insured set his death down to profit and loss. “Bob Injuresoul” is one of the frighful results of the Chicago Trib une's improved method of spelling. Young men may ba made of brass, but the Cincinnati Commercial says young ladi jsare made of belle met- A sad paragrapher asks: When people are killed by an overdose of opiates, isn’t it laudan um to the skies ? Chinese proverb: “The lion opens his mouth, the elephant (the em blem of wisdom) shuts his; shut yours.” Owing to the steady influx of En glish farmers large crops of “hs” are said to be springing up all over Texas. An irreverent alien says every body in Massachusetts believes the Bible legend that the first man was Adams. An exchange thinks the safest way to travel by railway is to walk and keep about twenty feet from the near est rail. Should cremation become fashiona ble, the Commercial Advertiser thinks an ash-barrel will be a necessity in every family. “If you do not want to be robbed of your good name,’’ says the Min neapolis Tribune, “don’t have it printed en your umbrella.’ The Detroit Free Press allows that a man who would fight a duel over Sara Bernhard would look into an oat-bin for chicken pie. Currie, the Texas assassin, has written over fifty poems since he was jailed, but is safe from the gallows as long as he doesn’t steal a fifty dollar horse. Shavings from a planing-mill in Chicago are by an air blast blown 700 feet through a fifteen-inch sheet iron pipe to a distillery, where they are burned as fuel. The Commercial Advertiser remarks that nothing makes one so happy in this world as work, excepting of course, pleasure, including eating, drinking and sleeping. A Paris urchin recently tossed a lighted cigarette into a cask of petro leum, and then put his eye to the uunghole to watch the effect. It was his last experiment. A scientific journal predicts that “the fuel of the future’ will be water gas. The Bible, however, teaches that the fuel of the future will be brimstone and sulphur. There were four highway robberies in tbe Yosemite this summer, and the hotel-keepers up there say that any more competition will drive them right out of business. It is mentioned as a terrible warn ing 'bat a band played “Pinafore” music when Prof. Wise went up in his balloon at St. Louts, and the bal loon has not been seen since. Dr. McCosh says that the Rev. Jo Cook is “a heaven-ordained man, coming at the fit time and in the ap propriate place. Well, we must sub mit to the will of heaven. The milkmaid of the New Orleans Picayune says: “A land flowing with milk and honey may be very rich, but it ought to make things quite damp and uncomfortable for farm ers.” Mr. Niver, who resides near the Seneca river bridge, shot a cormorant last we k. This has niver been done before in that part of the coun try; at least, that is to say—well, hardly. A trade journal, speaking of the preparations for the holiday gift season, says: “Their factory now turns out over 600 doll babies a day.’’ This must be the original “Baby Mine.” Fishing is a very simple art in it self. A pole, a line, a hook, a bit of bait, and you can fish all day. Catch ing fish, however, is an entirely dif ferent science. We know nothing about it. Eighteen boa-constrictors have just been received at the Philadel phia Zoological Garden, and, accord ing the keeper's calculation they will require for their support 27,000 rats per annum. That her lover was blind and poor was no impediment to marriage, in the opinion of the rich Miss Hood, of Granville, N C., though her par ents forbade the match, and she eloped with him. The Detroit Free Press says that a girl who can shed three or four tears at a critical moment, ana follow them up with a quivering sigh, can marry all around a good looking blonde who does nothing but try to blush. A shirt has two arms, the same as pantaloons have two legs. Yet one is called a pair and the other is only one. Isn’t it time that we let up on astronomy and paid more attention to the every day trifles that vex toe clearest minds? A woman applied for a situation recently at Belfast, with her clothes dripping like a witer-spout. On being asked as to her condition she said she understood the lady of the house wanted a wet nurse, and she had come ready for service. “Your Uncle Dick Thompson,’ says the Atlanta Constitution, “has been drilling a naval battalion at Fortress Monroe. The deep-seated resentment of your Uncle Richard against the pope and the solid south is liable to lead to the reopening of hostilities at any moment.” Dear Lome, we know that you feel like a pelican in the wilderness, but don t let on that you feel so bad’, •Just write that you are having a splendid time, and that the Cana dian girls are too awfully sweet to live. Louise will want to investi- I that mattfer, unless, but we an- I ticipate. NO. 46